As a former softdev with 1/10th the experience and thousand yard stare as this guy, there’s a lot of truth and wisdom here. I LOL'd when he said "TDD is a damn cult." 😆
“Good code is code that can be understood by a junior engineer. Great code can be understood by a first year CS freshman. The best code is no code at all.”
Yes 👏 the less I write to get something done, the better. The more people can understand and build on it, even better.
When I was a manager I always tried to take the fall for any mistake by my team that would be visible outside my team. I hope today someone from my team has the same feeling about it as this guy does.
Most engineers are 20% below market rate and call it loyalty. This is the same pattern as every high earner who optimizes for comfort over compensation and calls the gap stability.
Action: Find your market rate today — calculate what staying has actually cost you.
Synthetic chemist here. A lot of this transfers quite well. The documentation point is real and underappreciated in chemistry. Good experimental write-ups are a dying art. The part about not hating your job more than you love your field hit differently. The intern and junior colleague point also resonates. Some of the most useful things I have learned in the lab came from people earlier in their careers than me..
"What’s the worse that can happen? He fire me? I’ll just pick up a new job in 2 weeks."
Oh, the good old days...
The entire premise of this drunken list is based on the belief of that a person can quit any job and get a new one within a couple of weeks.
yeah, what great times those were!
As a former softdev with 1/10th the experience and thousand yard stare as this guy, there’s a lot of truth and wisdom here. I LOL'd when he said "TDD is a damn cult." 😆
This reads like it was written in 2021.
I'm not seeing a ton of things changed since then
This was a great read ! Thank you for reposting this as I wouldn’t have found it any other way. Thoroughly enjoyed
“Good code is code that can be understood by a junior engineer. Great code can be understood by a first year CS freshman. The best code is no code at all.”
Yes 👏 the less I write to get something done, the better. The more people can understand and build on it, even better.
Thank you for your drunken sacrifice.
When I was a manager I always tried to take the fall for any mistake by my team that would be visible outside my team. I hope today someone from my team has the same feeling about it as this guy does.
Most engineers are 20% below market rate and call it loyalty. This is the same pattern as every high earner who optimizes for comfort over compensation and calls the gap stability.
Action: Find your market rate today — calculate what staying has actually cost you.
DON’T LEARN LISP! You have been warned, it sucks but it will break your brain and remold it in its own image. Everything is CAR and CDR
Synthetic chemist here. A lot of this transfers quite well. The documentation point is real and underappreciated in chemistry. Good experimental write-ups are a dying art. The part about not hating your job more than you love your field hit differently. The intern and junior colleague point also resonates. Some of the most useful things I have learned in the lab came from people earlier in their careers than me..
remind me to come back later
is now later enough?
no, after 18th maybe!
I'll see what i can do
Come back
im sorry, i cant rn. will be back after 23rd ig
oh u mf xd
Ight bish
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